Far-Right Education and Violence

<p>In the last decade the far-right associated with white nationalism identitarian politics and nativist ideologies has established itself as a major political force in the West making substantial electoral gains across Europe the USA and Latin America and coalescing with the populist movements of Trump Brexit and Boris Johnson's 2019 election in the UK. This political shift represents a major new political force in the West that has rolled back the liberal internationalism that developed after WWI and shaped world institutions globalization and neoliberalism. It has also impacted upon the democracies of the West. Its historical origins date from the rise of fascism in Italy Germany and Austria from the 1920s. In broad philosophical terms the movement can be conceived as a reaction against the rationalism and individualism of liberal democratic societies and a political revolt based on the philosophies of Nietzsche Darwin and Bergson that purportedly embraced irrationalism subjectivism and vitalism. This edited collection of essays by Michael A Peters and Tina Besley taken from the journal <em>Educational Philosophy and Theory </em> provides a philosophical discussion of the rise of the far-right and uses it as a canvas to understand the return of fascism white supremacism acts of terrorism and related events including the refugee crisis the rise of authoritarian populism the crisis of international education and Trump's 'end of globalism'.</p>